{"id":"CVE-2024-8853","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-8853","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:13:23.891Z","title":"The Webo-facto plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 1.40 due to insufficient restriction on the 'doSsoAuthentification' function.","description":"The Webo-facto plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 1.40 due to insufficient restriction on the 'doSsoAuthentification' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to make themselves administrators by registering with a username that contains '-wfuser'.","published":"2024-09-20T08:15:11.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T08:23:25.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"security@wordfence.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-269"],"affected":["medialibs/webo-facto"],"epss":{"score":0.00642,"percentile":0.50479,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.64%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/webo-facto-connector/tags/1.40/WeboFacto/Sso.php#L78","tags":["Product"],"source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3153062/webo-facto-connector","tags":["Patch"],"source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c1280ceb-9ce8-47fc-8fd3-6af80015dea9?source=cve","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@wordfence.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8853","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}